Optimizing the Long-Term Retention of Skills: Structural and Analytic Approaches to Skill Maintenance.

Abstract

Progress has been made in determining guidelines for optimizing the long-term retention of skills. Studies on learning and retention of color-word interference, schedule components, list components, mental arithmetic, and vocabulary acquisition suggest that optimal retention will result from using procedures during training, relating information to previous experience, making the information distinctive, promoting direct retrieval of the information, and providing refresher or practice tests.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA293798

Entities

People

  • Alice F. Healey

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Cognition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Detection
  • Educational Psychology
  • Linguistics
  • Maintenance
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Political Science
  • Psychology
  • Reaction Time
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.